How so? I might be missing something, I was never great at maths, but still...

You don't have to be great at maths to know the answer.

You know it was a metaphor meaning to say I was rubbish at maths and I actually do need explaining to get it.

I'll let you guys have a bit more fun then I'll be waiting to be enlightened. :P I suppose it's all about "reading" it not like a subtraction but something else (which would explain the possibly eccentric position of the minus), but I don't know any other way to read it.

How so? I might be missing something, I was never great at maths, but still...

You don't have to be great at maths to know the answer.

You know it was a metaphor meaning to say I was rubbish at maths and I actually do need explaining to get it.

I'll let you guys have a bit more fun then I'll be waiting to be enlightened. :P I suppose it's all about "reading" it not like a subtraction but something else (which would explain the possibly eccentric position of the minus), but I don't know any other way to read it.

It's addition/subtraction in base 8, which means the only "numbers" you have available to you are 0 through 7.

How so? I might be missing something, I was never great at maths, but still...

You don't have to be great at maths to know the answer.

You know it was a metaphor meaning to say I was rubbish at maths and I actually do need explaining to get it.

I'll let you guys have a bit more fun then I'll be waiting to be enlightened. :P I suppose it's all about "reading" it not like a subtraction but something else (which would explain the possibly eccentric position of the minus), but I don't know any other way to read it.

It's addition/subtraction in base 8, which means the only "numbers" you have available to you are 0 through 7.

How so? I might be missing something, I was never great at maths, but still...

You don't have to be great at maths to know the answer.

You know it was a metaphor meaning to say I was rubbish at maths and I actually do need explaining to get it.

I'll let you guys have a bit more fun then I'll be waiting to be enlightened. :P I suppose it's all about "reading" it not like a subtraction but something else (which would explain the possibly eccentric position of the minus), but I don't know any other way to read it.

It's addition/subtraction in base 8, which means the only "numbers" you have available to you are 0 through 7.

So in base 8, 7+1=0, 7+2=1, 7+3=2, etc.

You can google modulo arithmetic to learn more.

Thanks Pat. I've never heard of this.

No problem. Actually, I need to amend my example- it's 7+1=10, 7+2=11, etc. Once it "overflows" you get another digit, just as in base 10, 7+3=10.

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